Leytonstone

Forest Recycling are giving away free paint this Saturday, there’s live music, theatre, a new art exhibition and next week a charity market at O’Neills. And lots more going on in Leytonstone. Please pass the message on!

Until 13 April

Carne Griffiths at the Slate Gallery

An exhibition by local artist Carne Griffiths whose distinctive style uses brandy and tea for his paintings started this week at the Slate Gallery (the window space next to the Stone Space on Church Lane) and runs until 13 April.

Leytonstone dancer Theo Oloyade, 22 who performs under the name ‘Godson’ is calling for support after getting through to the final of Sky1’s Got to Dance, according to a report in the Waltham Forest Guardian.

The final is at London Olympia on Sunday March 17 and includes judge Ashley Banjo, also from Leytonstone.

A Leytonstone ‘Fixer’ who felt shunned at school because of his severe eczema is publishing a book to help young people understand the condition. A report about his campaign will feature on ITV News London on Friday 8 March 2013 from 6pm.

The good news is that most establishments score at least 3 or above (on 24 pages of results only 3 pages plus 1 entry are 2 or below). 3+ pages rank 4 (Good) and 10+ pages rank 5 (Very good). These scores are based on the date of inspection which is shown on the site, and standards can go up or down after inspection. Of concern though is that some schools only scored 2 (Improvement necessary).

The Food Standards Agency Ratings system

5

Very good

4

Good

3

Generally satisfactory

2

Improvement necessary

1

Major improvement necessary

0

Urgent improvement necessary

Finding results for Leytonstone

The Food Standards Agency site allows you to search by a number of criteria. The best way to find establishments in Leytonstone, which is not a formally recognised area, is probably to search by Borough on ‘Waltham Forest’ and then by postcode on ‘E11’. If you just search on ‘E11’ you will also get results for Wanstead. If you search on ‘Leytonstone’ you also pick up some results in Stratford with ‘Leytonstone’ in the address. But as postcode boundaries do not follow local government boundaries, I’ll leave it to you to take your pick!

You can sort the results by A-Z, or Z-A and highest to lowest or lowest to highest.

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According to The Scotsman, today 4 March, is the anniversary of the first electric tramcars running in London in 1882. Did you know that? Is it true? Wikipedia seems to suggest that the first electric trams in London ran in 1901 in Croydon. Any local history buffs who know any more please comment at the bottom of the page!

Put on an event for Leytonstone Festival

Leytonstone Festival is calling for proposals for this year’s event. If you want to put on an event as part of this year’s Leytonstone Festival you need to submit a proposal form before 26 April. More details on how to obtain the form and where to send it back from:

Jobs at Organiclea

Decorating time? Save money with recycled paint available in Leytonstone

If you have paint left over you don’t need, or you want to buy some cheap paint for decorating, Forest Recycling Project have reclaimed paint available for a suggested £1 litre. Their Leytonstone site is in Hainault Road. Check their website for the address and opening times and details of their other recycling work.

I don’t usually advertise jobs on this site as I don’t currently have the resources to manage the potential volume and cannot accept payment for advertising on this site while it is hosted on WordPress.com. However, Organiclea is an organisation whose members do a lot of work for the community, so on this occasion I’m making an exception. If you are interested or want to know more please contact Organiclea directly, not this site!

If you have a social media site where you can spread this message I know they would be grateful.

Horticultural Trainer

Part time: 3 days per week- Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with occasional week-ends plus additional unpaid coop responsibilitiesSalary: £20,930 pro rataBased at: Hawkwood Community Plant Nursery and will also work at outreach garden sites across Northeast London. 2 year contract subject to a 3 month probation period.Deadline: Monday 11 March 5pmInterview date: Friday 22 March

Organiclea is seeking to recruit a horticultural training practitioner who will be part of a dedicated food production team, based at Hawkwood, our 12 acre market garden. This role will deliver practical horticultural training with a focus on food growing. We are looking for someone with demonstrable horticultural experience (especially food growing) and experience of delivering experiential learning in a range of settings.

More information and to apply go to the Organiclea website (please do not contact Leytonstone Today!)www.organiclea.org.uk

Organiclea is seeking to recruit an Outreach Gardens Development Worker whose role will be to design and deliver a programme of support, training and mentoring to new community food growing projects. This role will: coordinate the creation of new community food growing sites; delivering training and skills development activities targeted at disadvantaged individuals; supporting existing community gardening projects to become sustainable; and building new partnerships within the community sector.

More information and to apply go to the Organiclea website (please do not contact Leytonstone Today!)www.organiclea.org.uk

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Leyton Sixth Form, College Theatre is advertising ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’ tonight and tomorrow. This Saturday really is the opening of the E11 Market, outside Matalan. Reside continues at the Stone Space and check out the local pubs for their music nights.

6-9 February 2013

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

“An exciting liberal new take on this most famous and classic of the Bards comedies”.

10 January–17 February 2013

Reside: at The Stone Space

Saturday 2 February

E11 Market

From E11 Market:

“E11 Market is open, free to the public every Saturday and trades on the pavement at Matalan, Leytonstone High Road. We support the work of local charities, hand craft designers and local food producers.

We have a wide range of products on sale, including local Lea Valley Honey, home baked cakes, bread and biscuits, locally made garden ornaments including hand made bird boxes and feeders, hand sewn crafts, hand made greeting cards, natural fruit drinks, vintage collectibles, hand-made gemstone jewellery, hand blended skincare and vegetables from OrganicLea.

Our market is a great meeting place and contributes to the sociable community in Leytonstone. We donate to the NSPCC and have ‘no steps’ wheelchair access”

Tuesday 5 February 2013 is Safer Internet Day

Most people will avoid serious problems when using the internet or mobile phones, but we all need to be on the look out for unsafe behaviour as well as making sure that we don’t inadvertently encourage unsafe behaviour ourselves.

A simple example of unsafe behaviour is putting the names and email addresses of people who don’t know each other into the cc rather than bcc field of an email. By doing that you are potentially creating spam, may be giving out email addresses to someone who will then try to spread a virus or malware, and if you identify any individual (rather than a company) you are breaching data protection too. But I bet we’ve all done this at some time — and even if we haven’t done it ourselves, a local business did it to me and many others just last week!

Safer Internet Day has been running for ten years and aims to educate and inform people about potential risks and good and safe practice.

It includes resources for teachers and self-help resources for everybody.

Although it is not directly connected with Leytonstone in any way, part of the aim of this site is to help improve digital literacy and so I thought it would be useful to give it a mention here.

Please do share with others. The people who need this information most are probably not the ones reading this post now!

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November 2013:
This site is no longer being regularly updated as I have moved from Leytonstone. I hope you have enjoyed using this site. A lot of text and pictures will still be relevant for a long time to come but please check other information in case it is out of date.